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...started when this story’s only true ruffian, one who goes by the online alias “brookbond,” posted to BusinessWeek.com’s online forums with instructions for finding out business school admissions decisions for schools, like HBS, who use the ApplyYourself online application system These instructions included advanced “hacking” techniques, previously exclusive to the domain of 8-year-old Microsoft Word users, of “copying” and “pasting” text—including their own personal identification numbers?...
Some argue that HBS and its application system, ApplyYourself, are really to blame in this whole fiasco because they should have had a better security system in place. But does that really excuse the rejected applicants’ actions? Someone who robs from a museum equipped with the best and most innovative security systems and another person who steals from an empty car with the windows left open are both committing the same crime. A misdeed is a misdeed regardless of how easy it is to commit...
...schools use a common online application and decision notification system called ApplyYourself...
...Metheny, chief executive officer of ApplyYourself, said he would visit HBS today to debrief staff there on the hacking...
...ApplyYourself system has the ability for schools to check the status of certain activity within the system,” he said...